Tech billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma has "disappeared" from public life and has not been spotted for at least two months amid a conflict with the Chinese regulators.
The Financial Times reported that Ma was recently replaced as a judge in the finale of TV show 'Africa's Business Heroes'.
"His photograph was removed from the judging webpage, and he was conspicuously left out of a promotional video," the report claimed.
The finale took place in November, shortly after Ma "made a candid speech criticising China's regulators and its state-owned banks".